I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of
"Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a blizzard of
stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest
the time looking at your stuff? You need to tell them why!

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Here's the frustrating typical pattern I've seen here for years:
1. spend hundreds if not thousands of hours developing something
really cool
2. spend 2 minutes posting a link to the repository on D.announce
3. someone posts it to reddit. Ignore it
4. get frustrated that nobody looks at it
5. get bitter and quit

I have a number of projects I'd love to blog about, but I'm currently
held back by https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14758. Perhaps
now is not the right time with the transition DDMD on the horizon, but
14758 is currently holding me back, and recently kept me from soliciting
D for my employer's most recent venture. I have defaulted back to
C/C++, unfortunately.
If I could get some support on that issue, I really think I could make a
major contribution to D, and perhaps bring an industry with me. Please
just bring me the baton, and I will run.
Mike